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From: The Washington Times | September 30, 2009
HOUSE Hoyer cool on telecom issue House Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer made clear Tuesday that he would be cool to a Senate proposal to take away the retroactive immunity now given to telecommunications companies that participated in warrantless wiretapping during the George W. Bush administration. “I don’t think that revisiting that issue is really going to get us anyplace,” the Maryland Democrat said at a news conference. His comment came a day after some Democrats said they planned to introduce legislation to repeal a provision in a 2008 act granting immunity to telecom companies that helped the government surveillance …
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